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On September 29, 2018, the Swedish public sector will have to be compliant with all EU regulation eIDAS requirements. This includes accepting all EU-approved electronic identities in public e-services. "We have now adapted our authentication platform according to the specific Swedish eIDAS requirements – not all international suppliers will bother to do this," says Stefan Runneberger, business developer at identity and security company Nexus Group.

Each EU state is creating one or more nodes to which anyone who wishes to authenticate to e-services in that country using a foreign EU-approved electronic identity will be directed.

Special adaptations needed for each EU state

"The authentication solution that an organization in the public sector uses needs to be adapted to be able to connect to that specific country's node, and since all EU countries design their nodes differently, the authentication solution will have to be customized for each country," says Runneberger.

Such customization requires a lot of work, and it is therefore unlikely that all providers will adapt their authentication solutions so that they can connect to all the nodes in the…

Facts & figures

Swedish-owned Nexus Group is an innovative and rapidly growing product company, which develops identity and security solutions. Nexus has enabled trusted identities for people, software and devices since 1984, and its technology is today relied upon by many organizations and 100 million end users around the world.

The company has 300 employees across 15 offices in Europe, India and the US, as well as a global partner network.